Browsing by Subject "disaster"
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(Frontline Medical Communications, 2018)BACKGROUND: It has been assumed that the mental health effects of repeated trauma should be incrementally greater than simple additive effects of separate trauma. However, repeated disasters afflicting the same population ...
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(2015-07-30)This thesis explores the use of small unmanned aerial systems (SUASs) for mapping of unknown disaster environments and investigates the impact of characteristics of such challenging environments on simultaneous localization ...
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(New York: Routledge, 2012)
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(New York: Peter Lang, 2012)
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This project intends to answer the question of how rising disaster losses correlate to essential climate change variables. Despite the substantial upward trend in economic losses from disaster, there is still debate over ...
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(National Forum of Multicultural Issues Journal, 2009)Disaster risk is socially distributed in ways that reflect pre-existing inequalities, in that some groups are more prone to death, injury, economic loss, and psychological impairment in the wake of differing hazards. ...
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(CA: Sage, 2010)
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(John Wiley & Son, 2014)
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(New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010)
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(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
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The purpose of this study is to investigate and forecast the impact of hurricane Florence on home prices in North Carolina. Quantitative data was gathered from real estate comparison websites such as Zillow and Redfin, ...
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(2009-06-02)This research seeks to improve the current state of knowledge about housing recovery following a major natural disaster through examining single family housing recovery following Hurricane Andrew, a category 5 hurricane, ...
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(2021-04-26)At the onset of the disasters, incident management teams (IMTs) are established to direct and support on-scene tactical activities in the field. IMTs cope with challenges of disasters such as constantly changing situations, ...
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(National Forum of Multicultural Issues Journal, 2009)
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(Springer, 2018)Investigations have collectively established that disasters affect people with disabilities both disproportionately and negatively. Relevant research is reviewed by academic genesis areas in this chapter, namely; 1) ...
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(Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2015-06)The World Report on Disability relates concerns about the experiences of individuals with intellectual disability in disaster situations. Disaster planning related to people with intellectual disability needs to consider ...